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Csm could be fuelled by harvesting restrictions in rEDD+ project areas. selecting appropriate
project activities and carefully understanding local realities will help rEDD+ project
developers address Csm in a meaningful way. in cases such as iñapari, where the timber
industry is the major economic driver, the FsC certification of forests
represents an economic trade-off between the delivery of carbon
credits and the maintenance of the local timber industry. pursuing
forest multi-functionality and preventing forest managers from
focusing exclusively on carbon subsidies is essential to maintaining
financial benefits for forest users in the long term, and to maintaining
the forests themselves.
For more information
This research was done in the framework of the Department of land
and agro-forestry systems (TEsaF), university of padua (italy). since
1996 TEsaF has carried out academic research on markets for forest
products and services in italy and Europe and in madagascar and
south america. The focus is forest multi-functionality and payment
for environmental services. For more information on m&m, contact
José luis Canchaya Toledo (jcanchaya@maderacre.com) or go to www.climate-standards.
org. For information on bélgica Community, contact Cecilia persivale (cmpersivale@gmail.
com) or go to www.asesorandes.com.
Endnotes
1. In Copenhagen in December 2009, responsible forest management was confirmed as one of the
financed activities in projects aimed at Reducing the Emissions from Deforestation and Forest
Degradation, or REDD+ (UNFCCC 2009).
2. All views presented in this paper are strictly those of the author and do not represent the views of
the organization with which he is affiliated.
3. Ley Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre, Ley No. 1090.
4. Consejo Superior de Contrataciones y Adquisiciones del Estado 2009.
5. Madera aserrada a pulso.
6. This includes local frame mills as castillos and hechizos.
7. See www.adexdatatrade.com.
8. See FAOSTAT.
9. This is based on interviews in July 2009.
10. Project area: is the area or areas of land on which the project developer will undertake the project
activities. Project region: is the spatial delimitation of the analytic domain from which information
about deforestation and degradation agents, drivers and rates is estimated, projected into the
future and monitored. The region includes the project area and is defined by the project developer
using transparent criteria. Leakage belt: the geographical area surrounding or adjacent to the
project area in which displacement of pre-project activities from inside to outside the project area
is likely to occur (Pedroni 2008).
11. Although M&M is called a REDD project, it is actually a REDD+ project. At the time it began,
project developers did not know what the ”+” stood for.
12. See www.v-c-s.org.
13. Following the “Face the Future Foundation” methodology IFM is achieved through the protection
and rehabilitation of logged-over, degraded forest from further logging and the adoption of